If the software running the forum didn't resize the images to something nice like 64x64 or 80x80 in this case, I could just upload an image that is 512x512 and really screw things up. I think it must be a safety feature against such a thing.

alright, those are fair points...yet on other boards (I think conceptart.org) they have avatar image limits that are imposed by some implicit profile check (to ensure image is of certain dimension and filesize), and not resized explicitly using html code.

it's just a suggestion, so that people don't have to re-make images specifically for this board or have their images get shrunk/enlarged

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